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I hope Coopers uses this as a wakeup call.....as in someone says - Maybe we should taste what we've been serving? I don't get to TX often enough and when I do it's rare that I have the time to hit any of these spots (other than in Houston maybe / I've been to Truth a few times), but Coopers used to be a nice respite from what I get where I now call home. The brisket and ribs aren't edible and certainly not for the price. On my last trip to Llano, I picked up dinner from Dairy Queen down the street because I've finally decided that it's not just an "off day" that I've experienced over and over. Congrats to all the honorees.
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Ugggghhhhh - Facing that weird spot where you know the truth about alcoholism and our lack of power, but your heart screams that you have to "fix" something. Made a 12-step call on an old friend who just got out of the hospital. He identified with 100% of what I told him about me and my drinking. Said he's been battling it for a few years and finally quit for a month and felt great. Once he knew it was "out of his system and he'd dried out", he picked up and then it was off to the races for 45 days - ending up in ICU. Agrees he's an alcoholic like me,........ BUT......... the hospital experience will never leave his mind again - he's been scared straight and doesn't need any outside help. He's got it under control. He's proven to himself that he can stop and now that he knows he can't drink moderately, he never wants to pick up again. Well then, remind me why you picked up in the first place after a month of great sobriety??? No answer to that one. He just can't connect those last two dots. Doesn't need a book or a meeting. He'll be fine with the memory of almost dying etched into his brain to keep him sober. I had to wish him well, tell him I honestly pray it works for him, but made him promise that when his skin starts crawling and his brain itches, he'll call me before the 1st drink. Powerless - fuck!!! Keep having to remind myself that if I'm powerless over it in my own life, that I'm sure-as-shit powerless over alcohol in his life. My sponsor told me that I had planted a seed and that I need to pray that he calls someone - doesn't have to be me - when that time comes.
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South Carolina Attorney shot in head months after wife and son shot dead
Reagan1k replied to Nicole44's topic in Daily Texan
Well, in this case they didn't give him access to it. He orchestrated the deal - acted like a nice guy and directed them to hire a buddy to represent them- then ran the whole process behind the scenes. They never knew the settlement had been paid, how much it was...anything...they were left in the dark until his other shit hit the fan and they hired another attorney to find out the status of their case. -
South Carolina Attorney shot in head months after wife and son shot dead
Reagan1k replied to Nicole44's topic in Daily Texan
The lengths he went in order to arrange the settlement and then steal the money from his dead housekeeper's sons is amazing. What's also amazing is the number of people in the legal community that had to know he was up to something and looked the other way (at best). Other lawyers, financial fiduciaries, and even judges seemed at a minimum to be scared to question him and in some cases were working with him in that scam. I have to think that this wasn't his first rodeo with pocketing settlement money meant for victims, as he seemed to execute this "deal" so seamlessly. Lots of innocent people left harmed in his wake. -
I realize most people never have the opportunity, but if you ever get the chance to shoot or even just take the meat from a velvet or cactus buck, typically from Mason or Llano counites - Jump on it. I've mentioned them upthread or in the managing wildlife thread, but they get chemically castrated by vegetation native to the granite outcroppings so they basically are rendered steers as a fawn. Never pump testosterone and don't go through the hormone cycles that doe have in dropping fawns. Damn near venison veal. Fork tender, flavorful but no gamey taste, and since they are just eating machines they get huge relative to their peers of the same age. In my mind its a toss-up between them and axis doe as the best table fare on the hoof in TX. I try to shoot at least one every year and most of the time burn two tags on them.
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Was able to fly in for the bow opener. Didn't intend to hunt / didn't bring a bow. Did did some scouting and generally relaxed. Was nice to see the effects of those late week frog choker rains. One of the coolest things I've seen in a long time was that starting Saturday morning, the Hill Country Rain Lilies started coming up and by noon they were blooming. Fields of them literally popping up by the hour. At sunrise you wouldn't have seen a single one. By 7pm, there were thousands of white blooms. Amazing what mother nature can do out there in just 48-72 hours when given a little moisture after a dry spell.....transformational.
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@Anastasis What part of Texas? That's a huge deal for me as far as aging a buck. Regardless of horn size and structure, the body structure of a typical mature deer in one region of TX can vary from that in another. I like what TexasBuckRegistry has done in putting out some photo charts showing age range by region.
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Changing your mind on a job offer?
Reagan1k replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
So much this - Leave me at the altar. Don't marry me, knock me up, and then takeoff. Be upfront and open. Tell them the situation. You may be pleasantly surprised. -
That's not odd in my club!!!!!!!!!!! A stranger said something to me in a restaurant once (it was possibly tinged in sarcasm from my perception) in the late 90's and I didn't have a good comeback but thought of one 3 days later....after hours of spinning over it. I looked for her every time I went back there and fanaticized about when I would see her ........and I'd say this and she'd say that then I'd do this and she'd do tha................ Hours spent reliving / re-feeling something - only about 1% of which ever happened. She made my resentment list. My sponsor pointed out that had I actually run into her years later (hell, even minutes later), she'd have thought I was a mental ward escapee babbling incoherently.
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I never drank the way I really wanted to when in public. I would control my drinking (would control it but wouldn't enjoy it) until I got home and could drink the way I wanted to. Socially, many of my friends would drink more than I. The difference was they chose the amount they drank, enjoyed themselves, and when they went home, they went to bed. For me, the only thing the few drinks I had would accomplished was to make me more thirsty. Had I drank in public like I really wanted to, I always picture the scene to be like in a movie when the needle is drug across a record and the whole party turns and stares in shock and silence. Drinking vs. DRINKING - sort of like naked vs. nekkid.
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Seems to be some signs. They can compensate and make you question yourself and if you are over reacting but something is up. The docs will have some tests they can do which can show the deficiencies or compensation. Best to get a diagnosis now. It will only get worse- never better.
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One of our guys used to shoot a couple every year and grind them to use as dog food. I always felt sorry for those poor dogs.
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@BabaYaga isn't doing it justice when he says inedible. It's worse. I'm convinced they'll ruin a good smoker or grill, and you wouldn't dream of putting one in the oven inside your house. I had a buddy load one in the back of a suburban and damn near had to sell the vehicle because he couldn't get rid of the smell. You might be able to choke down a young ewe, but an old ram will gag you. He's also right about them being hard to kill. Part of that is that they are as tough as an anvil and the other part of that is the fact that their anatomy is slightly different than a whitetail. Similar to a lot of African species, their heart is further forward in their chest than a deer. A typical whitetail hunter will shoot one behind the shoulder expecting to get heart and lungs, but will only get lungs. They can take a helluva pounding and go a long way on a lung shot. That's also why they're so hard to kill AND recover when bowhunting. They aren't going to die anywhere close when only lung shot. With a broadhead, you have to get a quartering away angle and tuck the arrow behind the front shoulder and angling into the front of the chest cavity to get cardiac tissue. Finally, their hide is tough and seals up, so they leave a shitty blood trail. Amazing animals!
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@CHIEF That's a big goat! I think I can smell him from here. I'm pretty sure the freeze took a toll on the ones in the hill country - not to the extent it did on axis and blackbuck, but our number appear to be down this summer. Those are cagy beasts. Nothing I hunt is as wary as they are. They can be a pain in the ass if their numbers go unchecked but they can be fun to chase.
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South Carolina Attorney shot in head months after wife and son shot dead
Reagan1k replied to Nicole44's topic in Daily Texan
I'm not disputing anything about Alex, the family, or all the other ills. It may well be all Alex (probably is) but nothing with this family seems to be linear except that they are the common denominator in a shit load of grief in this community. -
South Carolina Attorney shot in head months after wife and son shot dead
Reagan1k replied to Nicole44's topic in Daily Texan
My bet - Paul is (was) a psychopath who killed his mother in a fit of rage (the multiple rifle shots) and Alex shot Paul twice with the shotgun when he came on the scene, or in defending himself/wife. Alex then takes both weapons and dumps them in the slough to cover it all up "for the sake of the family", before calling the police. The enormity of what's happened, along with his own embezzlement surfacing is too much, so decides he just wants to check out, but his hitman misses. I'm most likely wrong, but that's the feeling I got after listening to the vocal fry podcast. -
This old SOB looks like I feel sometimes. I'm not sure how old he is but his horns and waistline gave up years ago.......
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I certainly hope you and your team are successful. One thing "I think I think" is that while all alcoholics can't imagine life without alcohol, those that are receptive to help are the ones who still can't imagine life without alcohol, but get to the point they can no longer imagine life WITH alcohol. That points to Bear's comments about allowing them the dignity to experience their own consequences. Many die before they get there, but we can recover if we want it and are rigorously honest with ourselves and others. Without consequences, the screaming disease in the mind drowns out logic and reality. It says we're losing our best friend and our lifeline to ease and comfort. When the heart and soul get sick and tired of being sick and tired - the the gut level feeling of knowing it can't go on like this opens the blinders to another way of life. I pray your team and those around him can break through that barrier and he comes to realize he can't live with alcohol any longer. Having an recovered/recovering alcoholic talk the language will really help. Seeing a living, breathing, at ease soul who had the same horrific fears about how he'll navigate life without his crutch is the gift of hope for us. It literally feels impossible to us, until we see evidence it can happen, hear our own story in someone else's, relate, and think...maybe there's a chance. Godspeed.
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So much this. My experience has been that deer loathe turkey more than any other wildlife. I can only guess that a flock creates so much movement and noise around them the deer feel vulnerable and their defenses are compromised so they exit quickly.
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South Carolina Attorney shot in head months after wife and son shot dead
Reagan1k replied to Nicole44's topic in Daily Texan
Never underestimate the power of an addiction to spin a situation so far out of control that even Hollywood couldn't make it up. Not excusing his actions nor making light of the circumstances, but holy hell, he has to be thinking what else can go wrong - the hitman I hired fucked up my own murder.....what else can go wrong. -
The fingerprints floor me. I can't help but think something wasn't right with that finish. It shouldn't be so fragile that a little humidity and fingerprints leave permanent damage. The fact that some cleaners didn't wipe those away at a minimum is incredible.
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That's a pretty complex equation that factors in deer density, pressure, normal movement, and other food sources (natural and man-provided). If there haven't been feeders running on the place in some long time period, and if they aren't located in area where the deer move through daily, it may take a few weeks - especially in East Texas. In areas where the sound of feeders is ingrained in their memory - it's usually a day or two at the most. They'll find it soon enough.
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Point well taken, and maybe no longer "cheap", but still certainly "cheaper" than comparable CF rifle rounds.
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Yep- it’s the Soviet 30-30 and the 30-30 has killed, oh I don’t know- eleventy billion whitetail. Soft shooting round in a bolt gun- cheap Ammo to practice with. Great truck gun combo or perfect for a new, small framed shooter to learn and hunt with. I’d love to have that CZ either with open sights or a LPVO.
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